notepad++ and love - a suggestion

[Pliskin09]

someone should create a NP++ plugin that allows you to read/edit/add to/save the contents of main.lua (and other lua files) directly inside a *.love file. thought i'd throw the idea out there. having to make a new *.love file each time to test a single thing is tedious

[Voker57]

dunno how's it on windows, but in linux you can run "love mydir/" to run folder instead of zipped .love archive of it.

[Robin]

dunno how's it on windows, but in linux you can run "love mydir/" to run folder instead of zipped .love archive of it.

It's possible on every platform LÖVE supports.

[thelinx]

Yeah, back when I still used windows I had this folder layout:

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Love projects/
  Game1/
  Game2/
  Shortcut to LOVE.exe

Then to try a game I'd just drag and drop the folder on the shortcut.

[TechnoCat]

You can also use a zip archiver such as WinRAR and open up the love file to open the files from in there and edit those. WinRAR just asks if you want to update the archive whenever you make a change.

[kalle2990]

I can't get the "love mydir/" to work, the only thing opening is the default love window. Am I doing something wrong? I enter (without quotes) "C:/love/love.exe mydir/"

[bartbes]

mydir was an example name of the dir that contains the main.lua, change it to what it really is and it'll work.

[iza]

It doesn't work with the trailing slash on the directory path (quite annoying actually -- I use programmer's notepad and there's no way to remove it in the built-in path variable, so I had to hard-code the directory in my run script);

try C:\love\love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir" instead


Edit: Upon further examination, it's a bit more finicky than that:

WITHOUT quotes on the directory path, it works with or without the trailing slash
ie
love.exe C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir
love.exe C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir\
both work; but of course if you have spaces in your path, you need quotes

WITH quotes on the directory path (if your path has spaces), it only works without the trailing slash
ie
love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir"
works
love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir\"
does not

[Robin]

WITH quotes on the directory path (if your path has spaces), it only works without the trailing slash
ie
love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir"
works
love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir\"
does not

With \" you can include a literal ". Change it to

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love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir\\"

and it should work

[iza]

With \" you can include a literal ". Change it to

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love.exe "C:\path-to-my-dir\mydir\\"

and it should work

Ah-HA so that's why; I never thought of that; thanks